THE SUXDAT OttEGOXIAN", PORTLAND. DECEMBER 191G. '.New Year's Edition mwxn. Section One Pages 1 to 12 voi . i vi o. i;..t WRT1.A D. ORtOON, HONOt V- 4tNl'RV I. lOll prick rivE ci:vt. rpOPORTlJVNDrS GREAT OPPORTUNITY 3SSS3l I'll ' s--&lJiivn i ' -- 4 It O N 4 FP Li- Keynote of the ;i Hasan faiijofePiPCii&: llPpf - ew Year s Uregonian OPPORTUNITIES to build up foreign trade; to establish more industrial plants; to capitalize Oregon's wealth of raw ma terials; to extend its domestic commerce; to expand its inter- nal development will be emphasized in the Annual Number. The shipbuilding industry, already representing more than $25, 000,000 in actual business, will be especially featured. Facts portraying the general progress of the State and showing opportunities in agriculture and. industry will be presented. The Special Number will contain four complete sections de voted to the progress of Portland and the State. It will be the most complete pictorial number ever published in Oregon. Place Cents Your Order Now. The Price Is Only Five Postage Five Cents Additional. Order Blanks Are Printed Elsewhere in This Issue WOMEN SEEK TOYS Parents Ask for Gifts for Those Santa Forgets. GIRLS TO DRESS DOLLS Boys Will Mend Broken Playthings and Schools AVill Collect All Out grown Toys for Poor on Thurs day and Friday. very little In this connection. To rem edy this distressing- situation we earnestly pray for your help by sup porting the salary increases recom mended by the American Federation of Labor and the Nolan minimum wage bill." Who will contribute a doll, a book or a toy for the little people who are very apt to be overlooked by Santa Claus? The plea is made by the social serv ice department of the Portland Parent Teacher Council. Mrs. W. I. Swank is acting: as chairman of the Christmas toy committee and she is determined that no child in Portland shall be for gotten. v Next Thursday and Friday the parent-teacher folk will set aside as "Toy days." To prepare for the distribution the committee has asked each school to gather together as many toys as possible. In each school the social serv ice chairman will assemble the dona tions and see that they are taken to the headquarters at Fourteenth and Johnson streets: The boys of the manual training: de partment will mend all the toys that are broken and the girls of the sewing classes will dress all the dolls. It will be one jolly, happy time for the chil dren who give and the children who receive. Toys that little folks have outgrown, dolls that belonged to little girls who no longer play with dolls and books that have been read and re read will be donated to the cause. Tol the homes where sickness and sorrow and poverty make a Christmas celebra tion impossible the parent-teacher women will take the gifts and give a ray of sunshine to the children. Every hospital ward will be visited and all the institutions that will not be otherwise remembered. All who wish to assist in this big round of giving may take their gifts to any of the Bchools or to the headquarters at Four teenth and Johnson streets, or they may communicate with Mrs. W. I. Swank, chairman. TRAFFIC OFFENDERS FINED Two of Them Spend Three Hours Each in Meditation Cell. Almost three months ago A. B. Cura mings, chauffeur for Dr. J. K. Mount, of Oregon City, was arrested by Motor cycle Patrolman Ervin for speeding. He was released on his promise to ap pear In court the next day. He did not keep his word. A few days ago Dr. Mount learned of his chauffeur's dereliction and instructed him to ap pear in court. Yesterday morning, before Munici pal Judge Langguth, the tardy ' of fender confessed his fault. He was ordered to pay a fine of 12 and spend three reflective hours in a quiet cell. A. R. Hawley was ordered to spend three hours in jail and pay J12 to the city. Others arrested by Patrolman Ervin and convicted yesterday were: W. B. Tull, who was fined S10: G. T. Panze. fined 12: William Santore. fined $12. O. R. Zimmerman, who was shown the meditation cell." and R. H. Randolph. who was sentenced to serve half an hour. School Standard Announced. CHEHALIS, Wash., Dec 16. (Spe cial.) A. C. Canterbury, Lewis County Superintendent, after careful study and investigation, has formulated eight requirements for standardizing the rural schools of the county. These rules have been issued to the teachers and they are to be posted in the school rooms. Some of the requirements are scientific heating, lighted and ven tilated buildings, proper equipment of all kinds and community work. Nearly 1000 varieties of rice have been identified in the Philippines by government scientists. T. RYAN SENDS CALF Mr. Yeon Receives Package by Express From Virginia. HIGHWAY TRIP REWARDED i New York Financier' Delighted Wltli Treatment in Portland, and Sends Christmas Present to Host on Highway Trip. Being roadmaster of Multnomah. County without a salary has its com pensations after all. For three years now John B. Yeon, millionaire good-roads enthusiast and philanthropist, has been head of the road department of this old county at a flat salary of nothing a year. True, he has had some flattery, a lit tle praise, more or less appreciation and a whole lot of grief, but he has had no material rewards, so to speak That is. not until-- But let the story speak for itself: Early in September Thomas Fortune Ryan, prominent New York Banker, railroad and coal mine operator, stock breeder. capitalist and sometimes Democratic politician, came to Portland in his private car. Crown Point View Deltshta. As is his wont, Mr.' Yeon took Mr. Ryan and his party on a trip over the Columbia River Highway in his auto mobiles. Mr. Ryan was pleased beyond meas ure as everyone is who sees the high way. "Well, sir," commented the- New Yorker as he stood on Crown Point giv ing the scenery the once to twice over, "his beats anything I ever saw and I have traveled some, too. I never have seen scenery like this, and I never have seen a road like this. Here you have the combination of road and scenery." Mr. Yeon explained that the road has been built by the people of Mult nomah County as an attraction for tourists. Others in the party told of Mr. Yeon's remarkable self-sacrlflce In giving his services to the road work. "When I get back to New York I'm going to remember Mr. Yeon," declared Mr. Ryan assuringly. "Now that'll be all right." protested Mr. Yeon. Package Proven to Be Calf. The incident was quite forgotten un til a few days ago, when Mr. Yeon re ceived a telephone call from a local express office. "Say; we have a package down here from New York, all prepaid and every thing. Where shall we deliver it?" Mr. Yeon told them to deliver it at his home. When it arrived the "package" was discovered to be a crate containing a fine Guernsey heifer. Accompanying her was a pedigree as long as a man's arm. She is registered under the name of "Indomitable Minnie of Oak Ridge." Her grandfather is "Imperial Amiable of the Isle," a famous bull. The heifer was bred by Mr. Ryan on his famous Oak Ridge stock farm in Virginia and sent as a Christmas pres ent to Mr. Yeon in appreciation of his work on the Columbia River Highway. SLAYER WAITS 18 YEARS JAMES FOLEY CONFESSES MIRDER AT NOME TO AVENGE PAL. C. E. Meyers, professor of experi mental vegetable growing at Pennsyl vania State College. Center County, Pennsylvania has succeeded in grafting tomatoes to potato plants. Portland Underworld Known Slayer and Whispers of Killing; Have LonsT Been Current Here. James Foley, held In Tacoma as the self-confessed murderer of "Diamond Dutch." who was shot to death In Nome. Alaska. 18 years ago. is thought by local officers to be no other than Frank Nolan, a "yegg." whose picture is in the Portland police records and who was arrested here in 1909 on a va grancy charge. For years Nolan, who was known to the underworld as "Big Johnny" and "Connecticut Slim." made this city a stopping point on his annual migration from the south. At such times he was a well-known character of the North End and always under the espionage of the police. He was arrested in 1909 by Detectives Coleman and Snow on a vagrancy charge and as a suspected sare-Diower. The killing of "Diamond Dutch" was almost ancient history in yeggdom. as was the earlier and similarly trasrtc taking off of "Dublin Mickey." Both were known In the Portland under world, however, and It was also com mon knowledge that "Dublin Mlckev" NEW YORK FINANCIER'S CHRISTMAS APPRECIATION TO JOHN B. YEON FOR SHOWING HIM PLEASURES OF COLUMBIA RIVER HIGHWAY. FEDERAL UNION ASKS RISE Government Employes Want Mr. Chamberlain to Back Increases. Members of Federal Employes' Union, No. 15.261. comprising Federal em ployes in Portland, have sent the fol lowing telegram to Senator Chamber lain requesting him to support a meas ure to increase their salaries: "In the last few years a dollar has depreciated 39 cents for purchasing wheat, 14 cents for meat. 61 cents for potatoes 65 cents for cotton and 35 cents for wool, which makes an average of 43 cents for these staples. There are men working in Portland eight hours a day for the Federal Government who are paid only $660 a year, the purchas ing power of which for bread, meat. potatoes and clothing amounts to only $376 a year. They cannot support their families on this amount. Nearly if not all corporations have increased wages to meet the increased cost of living. while the Federal Government has done ZTXr&SSKyZ Pure-Bred Guernsey Heifer From Tkonaa F. Ryan Virginia Stock Farm. 1 Thompson's Cnnre Lrnae Better. THOMPSON'S KRYPIOK FARVISIOH rithout Line inthe s; tens The kind that make you feel YOUNG without making; you LOOK old. Thompson Optica Institute Second Floor Corbet t Bldg. Fifth and Morrison Portland's Oldest and Larg est Exclusive Optical House and "Big Johnny," or Frank Nolan, had been pals. Both killings in the Alas kan country remained unsolved, so far as the law was concerned, but the un derworld discussed them. It was whispered that poor "Big Johnny" was going "dippy."- Why? Be cause he had slain "Diamond Dutch" in Nome. And the reason for "Diamond's" demise? Ho killed "Big Johnny's" pal. "Dublin Mickey," whose tardiness with the trigger had been fatal. When Nolan passed through Portland and rambled about the North End hang outs, these whispers sprang up. They became commonly known to the police, but no action was taken for lack of evidence. " "Big Johnny used to come up from the south, over the hump' when the geese started in the Spring." recalled Detective Snow. "He operated around here in the Summer. Every yegg In town knew the story of his killing 'Diamond Dutch.' " "This 'Big Johnny," or 'Con Slim,' as they called-him. was a 'thrower.'" con tributed Detective Coleman. "He was 'good.' He could dislocate his elbows, his knees, his Jaw, whenever he wanted to. Then he'd string a story and gather In the coin. He made sometimes as high as J40 a day, the yeggs said." 'WHISKY AND MAN TAKEN CHARLES MELT ARRESTED AFTER ALLEGED RI SE. Toledo School Teacher Stricken. TOLEDO. Wash.. Dec. 16. (Special.) Miss Mabel Sneider, a Toledo school teacher, suffered an acute attack of appendicitis Sunday, and .was taken to Tacoma to undergo an operation. Dur ing her absence Mrs. Fred M. Martin has charge of the primary department. Suxpert Declared to Have Boarded Train From California on East Side. Leavinc It at I'nlon Station. When Charles Helt emerged from tho Union Depot yesterday morning with five traveling bags distributed about his person and hailed a taxi. Deputy Sheriff Christof ferson gave pursuit. The officer leaped the running-board of the flying taxi, collared Holt and opened the suitcases. He said he found 60 quarts of whisky' in them. Helt had been shadowed by Deputy Christofferson yesterday, for he was suspected of bootlegging. He escaped conviction in the District Court on tho charge last week. The officer says ho saw Helt board the Southern Pacifio train from California at the East Morrison street depot. Christofferson. climbed into an automobile and beat the train to the depot. He waited at the entrance, and soon Helt appeared, laden with suitcases, which he did not have when he boarded the train. Co-operation on the part of employes of the railway company is alleged by Sheriff Hurlburt. who may demand are invest iuation by railroad officials. FOR QUICK SALE! 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